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vSphere 6.5
What is VMware vRealize Log Insight for vCenter Server
Let’s face it, syslog collection is not as exciting as other things we would like to be doing as administrators, but often it is a necessary evil that we have to face when troubleshooting or trying to identify potential problems…
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vSphere 6.5
Using VMware VM Storage Policies
VMware Virtual Machine Storage Policies fall under the realm of Storage Policy Based Management that assists with virtual machine provisioning. When defined, Storage Based Policies define which type(s) of storage are presented for the virtual machine and how the virtual…
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vSphere 6.5
Create Secure FTPS server for VMware VCSA 6.5 Backups
We have covered in detail how to in general provision an FTP server using FileZilla for the purposes of targeting for our VCSA 6.5 backups. However, to take this a step further, what if you want to secure the backup…
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VMware
Using VMware vSphere VM Customization Specification
Deploying virtual machines is a basic part of VMware vSphere administration. Virtual machines are deployed, cloned, etc. Customizing the guest operating system can be a very labor intensive set of tasks from a provisioning standpoint. Thankfully, the VM Customization Specifications…
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vSphere 6.5
New VMware vSphere 6.5 HTML5 Web Client Features with Fling
VMware is showing great commitment to the development of the new HTML5 web client and are quickly releasing new features and functionality. How can you use the new HTML5 web client features and functionality before they make it into the…
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VMware
What is VMware Changed Block Tracking
Most of today’s backup solutions that interact with VMware vSphere environments are able to use a technology called Changed Block Tracking (CBT) which allows taking incremental backups of virtual machines much more efficient which allows much smaller and quicker backups…
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SQL
Upgrade SQL Server 2016 to 2017
Recently, SQL Server 2017 was released as GA to the masses. This represents the latest and greatest SQL server technology available to consume. There are some really great new features that are contained in SQL Server 2017 to be aware…
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Hyper-V
Backup Hyper-V clusters with Nakivo
Nakivo Backup & Replication provides a powerful means to backup multiple hypervisors including VMware, AWS instances, and also Microsoft Hyper-V environments. Especially cool with the Hyper-V support is the ability to protect Hyper-V Failover Cluster environments. This functionality was introduced…
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Backup Software
Veeam SQL Transaction Log Backups
Veeam Backup & Replication provides powerful features for backing up virtual environments. One of these features is the ability to provide application aware backups. Application aware backups allow organizations to maintain transactional consistency in backups of virtual machines housing applications…
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NSX
What is VMware NSX SpoofGuard
VMware NSX includes many great features that help to bolster an organization’s security posture at a network level. It allows the abstracting of network and security functionality from the underlying physical network infrastructure. We often talk about microsegmentation with VMware…
